* Benson’s flip
à care
à if you can rock the child
* Buddha
* Moby-dick
à human vs. nature
à leadership
à themes: race, pursuit/quest, democracy, chase/revenge
à Why did Ishamel survived?
1. Lincoln’s leadership (looking ahead, where he lead the country through the
civil war)
2. Friendship of Nathaniel Nathaniel Hawthorne Hawthorne and Herman
Melville
3. The Gospel of the century
4. The classic of mystery of skepticism and hope
à 1819 born à 11 years old father’s ill à 12 years old father’s dead 00> 21 years
travel to the South Pacific à 25 years became writer à 30 years have 500 book
à be friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne à 1851 marked at NY custome House with
poor and obscure with 4 children à 1891 dead at the age of 70
* Edgar Allen Poe
à The Raven
à Nevermore = 高更引用過
à magical realism
à 女人離開了
à dreary, weak, weary = alliteration, repetition of consonant
à ever more, nothing more = 學烏鴉的叫聲
* Allegory vs. Fantasy
à Allegory
à is in most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been
used widely throughout the histories of all forms of art, largely because it
readily illustrates complex ideas and concepts in ways that are
comprehensible to its viewers, readers, or listeners.
à Faerie Queene
à Fantasy
à it is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural
phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting
* Malignant (will not cause death) vs. Malevolent (will cause death) à benevolent
* Indifferent (show less concern)
* Infamous (notorious ex. Odysseus)
* Young Goodman Brown
à city/village ----- forest
à Wife = Faith
à when? Sunset
à where? Salem’s large village
à pink ribbons = the combination of purity and sexuality
à staff = likeness of a great black snake (similarity)
à “My Faith is gone!” (對人的信念和信心都不見了)
à omen, stern, sad = most repetitive words in the last paragraph of the story = alliteration
à gloom = onomatopoeia 
* Everyman
à one stands for rest of all
à influenced Edgar Allan Poe and the people from the 20th century (ex. 台北人,
百年孤寂)
